We need a better and more honest account of how much money they spend and how much power they have, and more focus on their options and responsibilities. With that, more people would see a good reason to go and vote.
More Ministers need to talk to the public bodies that report through them and hold them accountable for their budgets and actions. Too many of them let us down.
We have seen a long list of these bodies let people down, with hapless ministers then held to account for their failings.
The green revolution wants to change the way we heat our homes, the kind of transport we use, the products we buy from industry, and the diets we eat.
These measures offer scope for up to £100 billion of savings through recaptured productivity, lower losses by state concerns, more private green investment, and fewer low wage migrants.
Our generating capacity and National Grid infrastructure are nowhere near ready for a full transition away from fossil fuels, and the political price of forcing lower living standards on voters will be very steep indeed.
With better cost controls and an attack on some of these areas of needless spending, Sunak and Hunt could show how you get more public services for less – and free up money for tax cuts too.
It has thrived through sector after sector demanding special treatment. Each claims a skills shortage and requires many more visas to be issued to foreign workers to come here.
We are fed up with being controlled by its incorrect forecasts, and subject to wild policy swings by the Bank of England which did much to give us inflation in the first place.
We all like lower taxes and backing British business – but that is no excuse for not delivering on getting inflation down and delivering on economic growth.
It’s absurd that we count CO2 output for domestic manufacturing, but not that produced by the manufacture and transportation of imported goods – and that’s just the start.
We need higher public sector productivity, lower costs of government, and a lower deficit. This can advanced with tax cuts which lower prices, create more supply, and boost incomes and profits to tax at home.
What is needed is a successful drive to boost public sector productivity, a reining in of some nice-to-have but not essential spending, and some tax reductions and incentives to boost investment and output.
I travelled up to Manchester on the morning work train from Euston to get to Manchester at 8.45am after just two hours and fifteen minutes of travel. The train was practically empty. Where is the case based on capacity for this new train line?